Rothosen louts: HSV chase unwanted club record! | OneFootball

No other Bundesliga club has had to play shorthanded more often this season than HSV. That is now also causing frustration within the team itself.

“I don’t understand how you can get so many red cards. It’s simply not clever, it’s stupid,” complained midfielder Nicolai Remberg, for example, after the lost northern derby against Werder Bremen. “Always having to chase the game while a man down costs energy, it’s just shit.”

Board member Eric Huwer also said in a media round one day after the 1–3 defeat: “We are conceding too many penalties and getting too many red cards against us. We have to work on that so that we become more resilient and difficult to play against again.”

Merlin Polzin put it somewhat more moderately. Especially as a newly promoted side, it obviously does not help “when we are regularly a man down,” the Hanseatic head coach admitted. Even so, he made it clear: “We are not a dirty team!”

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Will HSV end up with a double-digit number of dismissals?

A look at the Bundesliga fair play table paints a different picture. With 55 yellow cards, five second yellows, and three straight reds, HSV sit bottom. In other words: no one is playing as recklessly as the Rothosen!

However, the truth is that a considerable number of the eight dismissals handed out were, at the very least, questionable. HSV and their fans have already felt hard done by by various referees this season: Daniel Schlager, Timo Gerach, Florian Exner — the list is long.

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Still, the northern club is at risk of receiving more dismissals than ever before in its Bundesliga history. According to kicker data, the previous high came in the 1994/95 season, when a total of ten HSV players were sent off before the final whistle. In the same year, TSV 1860 Munich set the all-time Bundesliga record, by the way. No fewer than twelve Lions were dismissed back then.

At least to match that negative record, a Hamburg player would have to be sent off in all four remaining matches this season. That does seem rather unlikely…

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